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Monday, 17 November 2014

Knowle relocation project: and the longer-term demise of district councils... part eight: defining the term 'merger': "Each council would continue to set its own budget and remain independent, but work from one office."

Watch now for East Devon merging with one, two or three councils around us – after spending more than £250,000 of our money in 2007-11 telling us that this was not a good idea and resisting a Devon unitary authority. And when one of the first things that the new Coalition government did was to stop all talk of such a deal saying it would not be beneficial to us